Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago." With those words, the Windy City became the recipient of one of the most magnificent windfalls in its history: Picasso's $100,-000 design for a 50-ft. sculpture to stand in front of the city's new $87 million civic center. Also without charge, the Spanish master-who will turn 85 next month-threw in his original 42-in. maquette for the Chicago Art Institute...
...Hunt. A burgeoning new school of camera-wise Spaniards enters a sturdy claim for recognition in this spare, gruesome drama about a quartet of upper-crust Spanish hunters-three middle-aged malcontents and a wealthy young sprout-who slaughter rabbits for sport. The cool mechanics of death are recorded in some of the most grisly hunt scenes ever filmed, and during a long, hot afternoon the lust for killing slowly grinds toward a fitting climax. Boozing and broiling in the sun, the men try to buy, sell and slander one another. The hair triggers of anxiety touch off frustrations over...
Amendment. Specifically, Congress has authorized Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans to vote in state elections, thus overruling a New York law that required English literacy. As the court saw it, that tactic was a rational means of enforcing the Puerto Ricans' 14th Amendment right to equal treatment...
...squez portrayal of a court jester turned up for auction in London last year, gossips cast doubt on its authenticity, reserving their admiration for Rembrandt's Titus. Lee arranged to have the Velasquez secretly Xrayed, jetted to Madrid to compare it with other works by the Spanish master. When the hammer went down, Titus sold for $2.2 million; Lee walked away with a rare early Velásquez for a modest...
...Mustang in its own price range. Originally called Panther, Camaro is almost an outright imitation of the Mustang, from its simple grille to its squat tail. Chevrolet says that the name is French, means "comrade" or "pal." Sniping competitors note that versions of the word also appear in Spanish. One of them means "shrimp" and another translates as "loose bowels...